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Venue

Date

Time

Musgrave 5

23 July 2015

22:00 PM

Musgrave 5

26 July 2015

19:30 PM

SOUTH AFRICAN PREMIEREStrange things are afoot in Bad City. The Iranian ghost town, home to prostitutes, junkies, pimps and other sordid souls, it is a place that reeks of death and hopelessness, where a lonely vampire is stalking the town’s most unsavory inhabitants. But when boy meets girl, an unusual love story begins to blossom blood red.

The first Iranian Vampire Western, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, horror films, and the Iranian New Wave. Amped by a mix of Iranian rock, techno, and Morricone-inspired riffs, its airy, anamorphic, black-and-white aesthetic and artfully drawn-out scenes combine the simmering tension of Sergio Leone with the weird surrealism of David Lynch.

DIRECTOR BIOAna Lily Amirpour is an Iranian-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. She made her first film at age 12, a horror movie starring guests of a slumber party. Her arts background includes painting and sculpting as well being a bass player and frontwoman of an Art rock band before moving to Los Angeles to make films.